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 Themes and their Situations. 393 in the completion of works left in progress at Pasargadrc, continued the style in which they were commenced, when a few miles distant a younger and new school, open to other influences, essayed higher flights. I f on the whole we are inclined to date the Egypto-like bas- relief at Pasargadie after the death of Cambyses, almost in the same breath we must add that it must be placed no later than the opening years of the reign of Darius. In fact, the types and Flu. 189. — lios-rclicf at Uchibiuii. After H. <?i*YinMin, Jnuniai 0/ tht A'oyal AsitUk StKUtjf, vul. X. I'latc I. manipulation exhibited on the rock bas-relief at Behistun, whose date is fixed in the fifth or sixth year of his rule, already present the types of the Persepolitan sculptures, in so far at least as can be judged from the somewhat rough drawings that have been published (Fig. 189). Its situation high up in the vertical face of the rock, fronting the plain, militates against its being photo- graphed (Fig. 5) ; travellers have copied the figures and the inscription accompanying it with the help of the telescope. The scene occupies the lower portion of a field previously prepared, enframed in and .shielded by a salient band. The main side, from right to left, is 7 m. 80 c. The figures are thirteen in number,